I am more than open if people want to have a relationship with the Protectorate. Shoot me with a pm with any ideas you have, If you wanted a trade agreement or research pact or something (though the protectorate are instinctively wary of anyone offering anything to generous or claiming to offer anything out of the 'kindess of their heart') 

I will gladly throw ideas back and forth with anyone. 

Also I realize the Militaristic Socalist state has been done before in a variety of settings but I hope the protectorate doesn't seem terribly unoriginal.